Canadian Slavers

According to Scotland Yard and the French Surete Nationale, M. Roger Marcel Vernon, one of the few white slavers ever to escape from Devil's Island and resume slaving, flew from Paris to London last week with trusted henchmen to supervise the murder of "Ginger Max" Kassel.

Slaver Kassel had operated largely in London, setting up girls sent over by M. Vernon each in her own discreet Mayfair flat. Each paid from $250 to $500 to obtain British citizenship by being married off to a cheap British crook, who received from $10 to $50 for his trouble. Last week expensively-dressed, 220-lb. Mr. Kassel was found bullet-riddled in a ditch 20 miles outside London. Wide open broke a major European vice racket about which detectives on both sides of the channel seemed to teem with information.

After a hasty roundup of London vicemen, the coincidence was noted that nearly all had seemingly valid Canadian passports. That Dominion subjects should have muscled in to this extent was surprising. That the cream of London's daughters of vice should be paying tribute to an ex-Devil's Islander able to enforce his rule by trans-Channel assassination, was downright shocking. According to police, "Vice Lord" Vernon's women have been recruited from the poorer classes in Poland and Eastern Europe. They all know how to lisp in French-English and large numbers, after being "burnt out" in London, have been exported to South America, the sink into which the dregs of the world's illicit professionals drain.

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